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Dear Support Team and interested people,
Some of you may be interested in a subterranean stream that flows under the landscape of our integration into the United World Mission (UWM).
A few years ago, while I was serving on the board of the United World Mission, the board of the Latin America Mission approached UWM with a request to be merged into the United World Mission. I had served with LAM from 1988 to 2004, but I’d not had all that much contact with the LAM and its people since moving to Overseas Council in 2004.
As the UWM board deliberated, I was on several occasions inexplicably overcome with emotion. I supposed it was because I saw this potential merger as a way to salvage LAM’s amazing legacy at a time when the mission—like so many other smallish missionary organizations—was facing what appeared to be insurmountable challenges. Continue reading “that very rich LAM legacy”
In a hotel room in Alabama with Karen, I find myself thinking about the distance.
We’re down here from Indiana, visiting two of our families who reside in this state.
One of them is here temporarily: Christopher (a.k.a. Captain Christopher Baer, US Army),
his wife Sheena, and their two-and-a-half-year-old son Connor are at Fort Benning for a few more months before taking up their next assignment with the 101st Airborne in Kentucky (and deployments). We spent the Labor Day weekend with these Baers.
Then over to Montgomery, where Ryan and his family live. Including three grandchildren, the last of which is six-week-old Cooper.
This has me thinking about distance again, though not the distance between Indy and Bama. Specifically, what weighs on the heart this evening is the distance between Colombia and family. Continue reading “in the debit column: the distance”
Baerly There ... 
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